Robert Eckstein writes: The latest beta version of the Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 6.0 version (Mustang) now lets you access the system tray in Java with the help of two separate classes in the java.awt package: SystemTray and TrayIcon. These classes give you the ability to add graphics, popup menus, and floating tip functionality …
I recently wrote a news reader application (RSS only at the moment) that displays the messages using HTML. In doing so, I discovered the terrible state of the javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit. From the Javadoc: The default support is provided by this class, which supports HTML version 3.2 (with some extensions), and is migrating toward version 4.0. Migrating toward …
By default a left mouse click on a JTable row will select that row, but it’s not the same for the right mouse button. It takes bit more work to get a JTable to select a row based on right mouse clicks. You might be able to do it by subclassing JTable or ListSelectionModel, but there’s an easier way. 1. Use a MouseAdapter to …
I was recently tasked with an assignment that required me to draw several randomly generated colored circles and a target to a playing field. The user can choose the circle that he/she thinks will hit the target first and then bet on it. To make the choice as simple as possible I wanted a way …
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When I initially began reading about and using generics in Java, I heard the term “erasure”, but forgot it almost as soon as I’d read it. This is mostly because it didn’t really seem to affect my usage of generics at the time. Erasure is the process by which the compiler changes your parameterized generic …
Our class has just started learning about RMI. Many of the tutorials I’ve looked at are a bit out of date, however. For instance, many of them still mention generating stubs and/or skeletons using the rmic command, but this is no longer necessary as of jdk 1.5. All you have to do now is compile your classes and stub files …
The more I look into the different third-party Java technologies/frameworks, the more overwhelmed I feel. The list just gets bigger and bigger. And just as I start to look into something I hear that something newer and better is coming to replace it. Here are the names of a few of the Java technologies I’ve …
There are many ways to create your own window type in Java. The level of complexity often depends on the level of customization that you want. I’m going to walk you through the creation of a simple, custom, “frameless”, window that extends JDialog. I started off using JWindow, but noticed that it was not passing focus to …
The more I use the Eclipse IDE, the more I’m surprised at what it can do. The other day, for instance, I was thinking that I’d like to find a GUI tool that would generate Javadocs for my project. Before Googling though, I checked my Eclipse documentation and found that the feature was already there. …